VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8428

critical
Published 2017-08-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Barracuda Load Balancer 5.0.0.015 via the use of an improperly protected SSH key.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
barracudaload_balancer5.0.0.015

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.